Revolutions in Reverse pdf

大卫·罗尔夫·格雷伯 (David Rolfe Graeber) 是一位常驻伦敦的人类学家和无政府主义活动家，他最著名的作品可能是他 2011 年的著作《债务：前 5000 年》。 他是伦敦经济学院人类学教授。 1998 年至 2007 年，他在耶鲁大学担任人类学助理教授和副教授，专攻价值理论和社会理论。 大学决定在他有资格获得终身教职时不重新雇用他，这引发了一场学术争议，以及一份有超过 4,500 个签名的请愿书。 2007-13 年，他继续成为伦敦大学金史密斯学院社会人类学的读者。 他的活动包括抗议 2001 年在魁北克市举行的第三届美洲峰会和 2002 年在纽约市举行的世界经济论坛。 格雷伯是占领华尔街运动的领军人物，有时被认为创造了“我们是 99%”的口号。

Revolutions in Reverse pdf 大卫格雷伯

Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it s impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can t imagine an alternative that wouldn t be even more oppressive and destructive. The political imagination seems to have reached an impasse. Or has it? In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of hope in unexpected places. At a moment when the old assumption about politics and power have been irrefutably broken the only real choice is to begin again: to create a new language, a new common sense, about what people basically are and what it is reasonable for them to expect from the world, and from each other. In this volume Graeber draws from the realms of politics, art, and the imagination to start this conversation and to suggest that that the task might not be nearly so daunting as we d be given to imagine.